Thanks to both Lawrence Krauss and Matt Ridley for renewing my faith in the power of transparency (aka truth aka fact) and the value of not jumping to conclusions.
I share your optimism, but for a different reason. As I wrote elsewhere: "One of the more amazing things about this whole saga is how partisan and corrupt science institutions can be. You see the extent of China's influence over academia (the head of Harvard's chemistry department was recently convicted for being a paid Chinese agent) and journals like Lancet, and you see how journalists were desperate for the lab leak hypothesis to be discredited once Trump started talking about it. It's sort of reminiscent of the 'banality of evil' - where people will go along with evil entities like the Chinese Communist Party for petty, banal reasons." Yet despite it all, the truth is coming out
Thanks to both Lawrence Krauss and Matt Ridley for renewing my faith in the power of transparency (aka truth aka fact) and the value of not jumping to conclusions.
I share your optimism, but for a different reason. As I wrote elsewhere: "One of the more amazing things about this whole saga is how partisan and corrupt science institutions can be. You see the extent of China's influence over academia (the head of Harvard's chemistry department was recently convicted for being a paid Chinese agent) and journals like Lancet, and you see how journalists were desperate for the lab leak hypothesis to be discredited once Trump started talking about it. It's sort of reminiscent of the 'banality of evil' - where people will go along with evil entities like the Chinese Communist Party for petty, banal reasons." Yet despite it all, the truth is coming out